Social Determinants of Health and Neglect

This assignment delves into the crucial topic of social determinants of health. It requires students to analyze influential theories like problem-solving therapy and social support models. The focus encompasses various aspects of well-being, including elder neglect, family violence, and the impact of social ties on mental and physical health. Students are expected to critically examine research findings and draw connections between social factors and individual health outcomes.

SUPPORTING SIGNIFICANT LIFE
EVENTS SOCIAL CARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Impact of significant life events on individuals...............................................................1
1.2 Possible group responses to significant life events that occur to one of its members:.....2
1.3 Impact for others in health and social care, an individual experiences significant life
events:.....................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Effectiveness of organizational policies and procedures in supporting individuals and their
social networks affected by significant life events.................................................................4
2.2 Social networks may provide support to individuals experiencing significant life events:. .5
2.3 External sources of support for those affected by significant life events-.......................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Possible organisational responses to the need to support individuals experiencing a
significant life event:..............................................................................................................7
3.2 Personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing significant life events:8
3.3 Improving the support available in a health and social care organisation for individuals
and their social networks affected by events:.........................................................................8
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The significant life events describes those types of major events that changes a person's
status or circumstances like divorce, death of spouse, marriage, or loss of job. The supporting
momentous life events are comprised in this report after losing a loved one and its impact on
their lives. These sufferers called as bereavement. This report determines the situation of
different people as per their situation. It will outline the case study of old lady who died because
of not taking medical treatment. In addition, determine the case of women who isolated herself
from reality of life after her husband's death (Lin, Dean and Ensel, 2013). This also shows
personal reflections of people suffering from life events and avoids taking medical treatment. In
the end of this report, describe the people who are cussed with serious diseases and they never
take any kinds of treatments.
TASK 1
1.1 Impact of significant life events on individuals
The major impact on significant life events include lost lovable persons, divorce,
suddenly loss family member, loose parents, loose job etc. those are going to major impacts on
life and these are totally impact on person who are mentally and emotionally weak. For example-
someone met with an accident and died. Their family member having major shocked and they
face many problems in their life. Those life events give an actual stress and force to think what to
do or not. On other hand, some events like cancer patient feel tired and feeling of tiredness these
things cannot go away with sleep or rest. patient also suffers from lot of pain due to treatments.
Cancer makes patient energy less and also going to depress.
Similarly, Rita was an 84-year lady when they passed away she cases by breast cancer.
She lived in a small shelter with her friend Sue (Wentzel, Battle and Looney, 2010). Sue is 40-
year old lady and they both became friends who enjoyed their life together. Rita knows about
cancer before three months but they refused any medical treatments and she died in her sleep a
month later. These movements her friend become very helpless, they don't understand what to
do. Impact of these deaths of loved one sue become alone because they spend lots of time with
her friend. Form these kinds incidents Some people learns form things which happen in their life
and some people going to take negative, they think his lost everything in his life for losing
someone closer.
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There are following impact in humans life-
 Physical Impacts- The physical impacts which retreated to impacts on Rita's friends.
They going huge impact their friends not going eat foods and other drinks. Especially sou
she is very best of Rita. Those physical impacts are fully distressed people and full of
anxiety. For example- suddenly person lost their loved once and them feeling like alone.
No one is there for him/her. They avoid foods and everything of after her loved once
death.
 Bereavement- It related to emotions or feelings. It varies from person to person.
Emotions attached with closer people who are very close to us like father, mother,
brother, sister and other family relations If they dead their most impacts going to children
they are very attached to father mother (Thoits, 2011). Like Rita's friends are
evolutionally attached with her mostly their housemate sou.
 Social Impacts- The social impacts are comes in the life of bereavements. However, they
trying to help to change in life. The all changes try to improve them with the proper
support so, that it will not leave any harsh impact on the social circle of such individuals.
1.2 Possible group responses to significant life events that occur to one of its members:
People who are facing problems of bereavement receive different kinds of response such
as form family and loved once, friends. Like Rita's friends and their eight residents who enjoying
with her. People who are support from family. The only family is gives moral supports in
person's major situation. However, Rita's and Sou have no family they both are living in shelter.
In this situation family member's give confidence to face those kinds of situations. Bust she has
no family so they became very alone. In other hand in this situation's family members become
role as nurses, social care, doctors who get affected form the life events. When person lost
someone they feel like he or she loses everything in his life. He/she needs proper love care for
recover from such problems. The various groups are supports persons in major situations-
 Sympathetic-People are involved to helps person bereavement to recover from sad
emotions. People give sympathy to person to having confidence and face all things in
their life. The family members convince then to involving in various activities. Death of
Rita’s people is helps sou to having confidence her life and lives alone (Fink, 2013).
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 Social media (Twitter or face book) - This platforms through friends and family
members can easily share their emotions to viewing and facing or lots of sufferings. A
person helps for person to change his minds to other activities like games and studies or
business. Rita's other friends connect with Sou with social media. Sou shared their
problems and other things.
 Love of family and friends- This will affect a person's life, his family and friends who
gives motivation to each other in order to do things confidently and support in any
situation. Rita's best friend, Sou faced these kinds of problems they want moral support
from the other but they have not family member.Self-confidence- The family members
gives perfect confidence in person life. Any family member can give complete inner
satisfaction and comfort. Their family members trying to improve them self-confidence
in their life to handle all situations in life. However, Sou and Rita’s had no family and
their resident’s friends help them.
 Support group- The same kinds of social groups to overcome form stress they for
studies and any money related help for people. They also get moral supports from society
people they always stand in situation form helping person.
1.3 Impact for others in health and social care, an individual experiences significant life events:
Health and social care impact on an individual's life. People who suffers significant life
events their impact going to health and social care. Many children seem their family members
being upset due to death of their loved ones (D’Zurilla and Nezu, 2010). However, in case of
staff members them working in health care institutions and has been associate with the patient.
They create an emotional bonding with their family and friends or relatives. The health
professionals feel bad due to death of a person, whom they may have been treating. This is
because they fully attached with to care their patients and talking with daily. Death of patients
also damage hospitals reputation as health care professionals and those things which impacts
very bad on their life. The experiences say that the individual in significant life events their
major effects going to person health life they going to weak from body them trying to foods.
They spend their time alone. They try to lonely in life. They not attend any functions and other
events of family, avoid anyone in their family.
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The effective procedures and policies supports bereaved individual- the organizational
policies and procedures having very important role to play in providing supports those people
who are bereaved (Swanson, 2012). Those are hospitals; the reasons that they help the
management to developed and maintained certain quality stranded into their work and also
ensure that effective health care service provide to patients. They have numbers of policies
which follows the hospital it includes the standard for Bereavement Care 2001, Shaping
Bereavement Care 2010. All these authorities help to cater a person who has bereaved. Patient
dies when they provide necessary helps the person who has experienced through significant life
events as closer love one. The mainly organizations provide different kinds of facilities. The
organizations should be supporting and caring people. Who is faced the death of loved once.
Supporting for money related help and other kinds of social help for accommodation and food
facilities.
TASK 2
2.1 Effectiveness of organizational policies and procedures in supporting individuals and their
social networks affected by significant life events
Significant life events support an individual and their social networks they mainly impact
on human’s personal life. Some organizational polices developed the people confidence and they
help for people. Official group that hard impact on those people who are suffers from significant
life events. These types of groups provide social care and bereavement (Acierno, Hernandez and
Kilpatrick, 2010). They give policies for people and also give extra care. “At a loss” organization
is provided social care a consoling for those people who are loss their loved one. They give
facilities for consoling and provide help for various, fields; they try to understand their feelings
and motivate to do something in life. Organization provides mental and emotional both kinds of
help for people them also concern people for career and their future. Organizations is specially
established for help those kinds of people they overcome form their stress. The organization
personally chats with those people and try to improve their personal confidence. The
organisational aims are no one suffering from significant life events. In case of person’s death,
their family member loss everything like they not concentrate on work, they not have food, they
trying to avoid anyone friends and family. Organisation daily consoling people who are major
impactsa loss of family member. They ask questions and them trying to interact their ideas and
their mindset. This organization improves 85% people. They help for people ready for mentally
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and physically. They also developed the motivation skills and new ideas for life and encourage
for happily spend their life.
Sandra also lost her husband. In their life every moment they recognized their husband.
She has two children named Priscilla and Shirley. After death of her husband she is single
mother who take care of her children. One friend of Sandra tells her to go with counsellor, take
advised, and move on her life. She is going to counselling every month in 2 weeks. She feels like
she has confidence to spend whole life with their children. After that she going starts dinner with
their friends and spends happily life (Umberson, Crosnoe and Reczek, 2010).
2.2 Social networks may provide support to individuals experiencing significant life events:
There are many kinds of social network provided social groups and systems by having
satisfaction in their minds. The all of individual experience life event should identify the all
problems. Those groups main motive to outcome those people problems that are definitely got it.
There many kinds of groups they provide various kinds of facilities such divorce, loss loved one,
loss family member, loss job etc. those groups helps to identification of problems and solved
them perfectly. There are following groups-
 Emotional support- As per situation of Sandra, it was important to give her emotional
support because balancing emotion is the only option which will assist her in managing
herself and her children. However, suggestions given by friends visit a counsellor is
suitable as per situation because it is important for her to analyse that what she is doing
with her life and what she needs to change.
 Social involvement: Being alone after a significant event of life like Sandra is difficult to
managed situation. Therefore, as per case analysis, it can be said that it is important for
Sandra to involve in social gatherings with her friends and her kinds. Social involvement
is the practice which distracts human mind from certain situations (Goffman, 2017).
However, engaging one in social life is another support which Sandra can seek for
dealing with her loneliness.
 Psychological support- In these, organizations providing counselling session to recover
all the loss when this situation when people is fully stressed. “At a loss” is an enterprise
which provides daily session to people who are stressed and unable to cope with certain
situations. The counselling session by organisation assist people in analysing importance
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of life and living. These sessions are effective because it aims at providing a reality check
which helps an individual like Sandra in coping up with certain situations.
 Spiritual support- In these helps to improve person physical and mentally health.
Organizations support yoga and meditation that helps an individual suffering from life
events and give them major support. The company supports a yoga and meditation they
include daily classes of yoga in their company. Yoga helps patients in developing
mentally stability (Kwon and Wen, 2010). Increased concentration is the practice which
can help Sandra is dealing with her children calm and will also help her in eliminating her
loneliness.
2.3 External sources of support for those affected by significant life events-
External sources are help people of faced life events form different platforms and
different kinds of social events. Their main motive is to care the all patients which under them.
Their aim is care of those patients who causes by different types of diseases and these diseases
get cure only by giving medical treatments. Patients get cure from infection. Every person can
adjust their feelings or soul and body through involvements of the care and the support given by
all external sources. The organization involves meditation is also involved treatments, profound
and mental advice, recovery and eating schedule etc. Sandra is fully attached with her husband
they always spend their happy times together but when her husband she cannot involved in
activities and social events. She has responsibility of their two children this responsibility give
confidence to Sandra face problems in life.
 Family and friends- After death of Sandra husband, her family and friends give moral
supports and overcome to situations. Their friends try to overcome with stress and handle
responsibility for her kids.
 Unwinding, meditation and dream- These kinds of groups give support for cancer
patient. They are normally had lots of stress because they know that they will die after
few days. They having lot pain form therapies. Patients know that their life is not going
to be the same again. Therefore, to deal with such situation, they need external support
form family and friends. Those patients have first and the last external support is Doctor.
The doctors are only knows who the disease actually is and how to treat them. The
doctors are only who is try to support patients mentally and they recover faster if they
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take care of it property (Germain, 2010). Sandra husband causes by heart attack and when
their husband died she pushed her hand in their stomach that he is alive. She cannot
believes that her husband going to die.
TASK 3
3.3 Possible organisational responses to the need to support individuals experiencing a
significant life event:
In significant life events, some people are cause form danger diseases they are going to
aggressive and never takes treatments. They know they are going die so patient feeling like they
are already died for their family members and not take any advice and treatments people who are
take treatments who are having proper care. Mostly cancer people are 24 hours have care form
nurses and doctors. The people have not cooperated with doctors because they're afraid to die
and they loss their mental intelligence. People who causes with cancer they are going to totally
depressed. They avoid everything which happens in life and feel lonely. Some patients never
take any kinds of treatments and choose to die at home. A condition where people having illness
in causes death. They do not understand what they do in their life or what not do. Time to time
their behaviour going to change and they behave like rudely to other person. They lost their
mentally concentration and act like child. Some patients stop there treatments because they know
they have to die sooner (Braveman, Egerter and Williams, 2011). Patient’s sufferings form lots
of pain. They still receiving medicine and treatments to controls pain and other symptoms.
Patient family consults with doctors they trying to help patients. Doctors are fully taken care
patients they timely gives medicine, foods or other care. Doctor’s tries to give instructions to
nurse and they provide proper care for patients. For this care impact to patients they recover
faster. Hospitals doctors and nurses make environments for patients who spend their time
comfortably There all staff tying to ensure all thing such as patients do not get any kinds of
disturbance, patients having time to time medicines, they make sure food is proper quality
secure. But Sandra husband meet with heart attack. She doing proper care for her husband but
he is die.
3.2 Personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing significant life events:
My personal experience about support of individual in significant life event. I faced
these situations when I am 7 year old and my father got accident, this very sudden shocked for
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all my family member they all are going to stress and runs on that place where is accidents going
on, my father going to suffer very serious accidents. The entire family member lost hope for
father but I am not lost hope. I trust on him they survive from this situation. All family members
going to admit my father at hospital and doctors starts treatments for him. My father going very
serious accidents. Doctors and nurses fully take care of my father. They properly time to time
give medicine and other care treatments according to the doctors. After few days my father have
awake form comma. He has uncontrollable pain. Sectors give medicine and other treatments to
controls their treatments. My father have confidence that they recover fast, one family members
always with him because they not feel lonely there. After few day my father is fully fit and
without anypain and other injuries (Roberson and Wallace, 2016). Doctors discharge him and we
happily come to our home. My experience for these situations, my family members totally going
to stress and sad. Hospitals staffs and other family members give confidence and fights with
major situation. I feel that hospital staff and nurse gives their best duties improve my father
health. Moreover, my father has also confidence to recover fast. Some people who they know
they cause with illness or other danger injures they think they going to die and they do not take
any treatments from hospitals. Some other kinds of people who are causes with dangerous illness
they decided to die and stop treatments as well. In other hands I see those people who get
treatments and cooperate with hospital staff and without any distraction they do their own work
properly has timely.
3.3 Improving the support available in a health and social care organisation for individuals and
their social networks affected by events:
Improving social health care organization for individuals and their social networks they
mainly affected to normal people or poor people. For improving people social care and health
care people should consults with a doctors and they also try to handle all kind of situations
according to people having in their life (Ryan and et.al., 2010). For improve these kinds of
situation people go from time to time get check-up form doctors and make sure they cause with
any kinds of disease or not. Organizations should also started those kinds of camp where they
checked patients free of cost. They time to time take medicine to recovers from any types of
disease.
The health and social care adopts various approaches for improving the procedures of take care
those are-
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 Ideas of developing quality care- In hospitals they should developes quality care service
they provide patients. Such quality operation performs treatments well and hospital staff
also uses various kinds of resources which helps to improve quality service and best
treatments for patients. The hospital staff should established new techniques treatments
which help to improve patient’s treatments and recovering very fast.
 Long established practice- In this the socials groups should adopt various kinds of
strategies those not too advanced for taking care of individuals. All these socials groups
known as healing the wounds or diseases of the patients and focus mainly on the
improvements of the health and social care.
 Social culture and public change- Society plays a major role because they follow
changes and developments in the society. In the social care, people should understand the
needs of people and help them (Thapar and et.al., 2012). They also try to improved social
culture so people should going to attend those types of particular events. Citizen’s care-
Significant life events mostly affects normal people they live normal life and spend
happy movements in their family. organization should started to established care homes
in city where people get free treatments and best facilities. Which can for every level
people.
CONCLUSION
In this above report, it is concluded that all kinds of significant life events which impacts
an individual’s life. People who affects by these kinds of events they going to depression. those
events such as loss someone special, lost friends, divorce etc. This kind of events become person
lonely and fully emotional. In above report, comprised the impact of significant life events on
individuals and possible situation where loss loved one and their family member going to deep
depression. They don't know what to do or what do. Here comprised a woman who lost their
husband and they faced many kinds of problems (Townsend, 2013). In these reports also
compressed when people going to causes with some serious diseases they don't know what they
do or not. They stop treatment, they know after few days they going to die so they choose to die
at home.
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